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Mike Ritland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2565 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

How is there no civilian right of action with treble damages in civil court against either the recipient of the aid when Rudy Giuliani is paying his tax dollars for the State Department to hand it over to the group that writes hit pieces on him to get him acquitted?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

How is there no civilian right of action with treble damages in civil court against either the recipient of the aid when Rudy Giuliani is paying his tax dollars for the State Department to hand it over to the group that writes hit pieces on him to get him acquitted?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

How is there no civilian right of action with treble damages in civil court against either the recipient of the aid when Rudy Giuliani is paying his tax dollars for the State Department to hand it over to the group that writes hit pieces on him to get him acquitted?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

To get him not only humiliated, but to help all the adjacent reputational destruction that makes it easier to indict him on related charges. So we need a sort of Smith month for financing and operations for U.S. aid. Also for the adjacent ones. DOD should be subject to this law, state, CIA. But aid is the most obvious one because...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

To get him not only humiliated, but to help all the adjacent reputational destruction that makes it easier to indict him on related charges. So we need a sort of Smith month for financing and operations for U.S. aid. Also for the adjacent ones. DOD should be subject to this law, state, CIA. But aid is the most obvious one because...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

To get him not only humiliated, but to help all the adjacent reputational destruction that makes it easier to indict him on related charges. So we need a sort of Smith month for financing and operations for U.S. aid. Also for the adjacent ones. DOD should be subject to this law, state, CIA. But aid is the most obvious one because...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

These are public grants, and this is supposed to be humanitarian work. It's the last place you'd see coming to get socked in your own eyeball by the government you voted for. So that civil penalty can take the form of suing the grantee, but maybe you should also be able to sue the agency itself.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

These are public grants, and this is supposed to be humanitarian work. It's the last place you'd see coming to get socked in your own eyeball by the government you voted for. So that civil penalty can take the form of suing the grantee, but maybe you should also be able to sue the agency itself.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

These are public grants, and this is supposed to be humanitarian work. It's the last place you'd see coming to get socked in your own eyeball by the government you voted for. So that civil penalty can take the form of suing the grantee, but maybe you should also be able to sue the agency itself.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

You can sue the FBI for wrongful death if something they do is through gross negligence or otherwise results in the death of your family member or something. This is something that The famous Jesse Trinidou case of the Oklahoma City bombing. That can be done. What if USAID had to worry for its own budget if it failed in oversight to catch one of its grantees?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

You can sue the FBI for wrongful death if something they do is through gross negligence or otherwise results in the death of your family member or something. This is something that The famous Jesse Trinidou case of the Oklahoma City bombing. That can be done. What if USAID had to worry for its own budget if it failed in oversight to catch one of its grantees?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

You can sue the FBI for wrongful death if something they do is through gross negligence or otherwise results in the death of your family member or something. This is something that The famous Jesse Trinidou case of the Oklahoma City bombing. That can be done. What if USAID had to worry for its own budget if it failed in oversight to catch one of its grantees?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And you could sue USAID if one of USAID's grantees broke that firewall. Well, USAID has to fight for its life in the budget every year just like everybody else does. And

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And you could sue USAID if one of USAID's grantees broke that firewall. Well, USAID has to fight for its life in the budget every year just like everybody else does. And

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And you could sue USAID if one of USAID's grantees broke that firewall. Well, USAID has to fight for its life in the budget every year just like everybody else does. And

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And if they had their own budgets mortally threatened and they need to decide whether or not to plan the overthrow of a government in Central Asia because it wouldn't have enough capital to pull it off because they're targeting a U.S. citizen in Tanzania. The whole thing gets chilled. But you need these reforms at every layer. You understand?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And if they had their own budgets mortally threatened and they need to decide whether or not to plan the overthrow of a government in Central Asia because it wouldn't have enough capital to pull it off because they're targeting a U.S. citizen in Tanzania. The whole thing gets chilled. But you need these reforms at every layer. You understand?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And if they had their own budgets mortally threatened and they need to decide whether or not to plan the overthrow of a government in Central Asia because it wouldn't have enough capital to pull it off because they're targeting a U.S. citizen in Tanzania. The whole thing gets chilled. But you need these reforms at every layer. You understand?

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

Mic Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland. It's raw.

The Shawn Ryan Show
Peak Points | "I Was Covered in Blood" - Terrifying Moments as a Police Officer

Mic Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland. It's raw.